Word: mate
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Keiko has shown signs of wanting to mate, which may push him to try to join a group with fertile females, but whether he will be accepted into a pod is impossible to predict. He also has to "unlearn" what he was taught during his long years in captivity. Bit by bit, he has had to be distanced from humans, and his trainers reluctantly have had to drop, albeit gradually, the affectionate fuss they made over him. Physically, too, Keiko has had to be conditioned for a different life. The easy parts were training him to swim faster...
...computer-generated image called the G2K Targeting Map, on which cities and states that present opportunities and require immediate attention from the campaign glow an intense blue. The computer factors in poll numbers, historic Democratic performance, dates of and voter response to previous visits by the candidate, his running mate, family members or other surrogates. It highlights places that may respond to a sudden infusion of ad money or to "free media" generated by a campaign visit. When Gore's top advisers confer each morning about where to spend their ad dollars, where to dispatch the candidate and which ground...
...foreign policy questions that consumed half of Wednesday's second debate. Bush showed how far he had come since failing a reporter's pop quiz on world leaders in the run-up to the primaries. His much criticized choice of former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney as a running mate suddenly looked a lot smarter. And it didn't hurt to have Colin Powell sitting in the debate audience next to Laura Bush...
Thus, that Cheney represents a party historically hostile towards gay rights is no reason to laud his response as foreword thinking or excuse the ambivalence it conceals. And that Lieberman has sponsored legislation aimed at eradicating discrimination against homosexuals and currently has a running mate who has derided the lack of federal action in support of gay rights is no reason to ignore his own reluctance to be a trailblazer...
...Gore and George W. Bush, you'll recall, have a pledge not to go negative on each other. More than a month after the considerable fooferaw over that negative Bush ad on Labor Day weekend, the pledge clearly does not extend to either candidate's running mate, press secretary, strategist, document shredder, gofer, or pet. But Gore and Bush's mouths will be pure, they say. Until, of course, some time on Thursday morning when it's apparent that civility hasn't broken open the race. At which point just about anything could very well...